El Nido Resorts Lagen Island

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Palawan was once remote enough to be called the Final Frontier, and it was the coast at El Nido, not Thailand, that gave Alex Garland the setting for The Beach in 1996. MICHELIN notes that the travel press has been calling Palawan one of the world's great island destinations ever since, and that it has still not become crushingly popular.